Congrats Danny on a fine purchase, they are a fun rifle. The trigger responds well to moly grease and a lil tuning, and they are not terribly ammo picky.
I took deer and squirrel with mine till a bud wanted it more, and traded her away.
Need a full range report!
Take care,
warren

 

Thanks, Warren.

 

I'm thinking you will enjoy that little rifle and as stated above, not usually too "ammo picky".

The various versions of these Warne offerings are very popular down here in Aus and nice examples are readily snapped up.

Here's a nice one restored by a fellow Aussie forum member:

http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=603871&highlight=winchester+320

 

Wow! Great link, HJA8. Appreciate it.

 

You did well Danny, they are a fantastic rifle, they are very light, I have 2 both very accurate, with Winchester powerpoints, the newer one has a stiff action, Did John's review speak favourably, I'm sure it did

 

Thanks, Jason. Yes, I scanned John's thread last night, but this morning, I savored it over coffee. A very good post — love his pics of the bedding, etc.

 

Can't win 'em all.

This one needs bedding (?) and trigger work (5.3 lbs. after cleaning and greasing).

The Warne 7.3/22 rings on the Weaver V-16 did not securely engage the 320s little tip-off grooves. I tried reversing the jaws, but the other jaw positioning was no more secure, and even worse, it was canted.

Instead, I used a nice old Weaver K3 I had on hand with sharp-teethed Weaver 1" tip-off rings. This scope seemed a better fit aesthetically as well.

Given the 3X scope, I decided to test at 25 yards. Here is a target fired with American Eagle 38 grain plated hollow points.

I'm not kidding, folks. This was the best of the morning. It hated the greasy SK Magazine and waxy Aguila Standard Velocity. After those, I said, "Well, Danny Boy, maybe it's like your Remington Model 5 with a preference for high velocity plated bullets." I had a box of the plated ammo in my bag and used it to shoot the target pictured above.

I don't know if I want to put the effort into it or not (bedding, opening up the trigger housing, etc.). That final group on the center dot ain't half bad. Maybe I'll just consider it "collected" and take it to the range for an occasional plinker's outing.

 

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Give it a better chance. Or sell it to me and I'll send you better targets from better ammo. Gees, that ammo is really not telling a potential story.

 

Give it a better chance. Or sell it to me and I'll send you better targets from better ammo. Gees, that ammo is really not telling a potential story.

Better ammo? The SK Magazine delivers half inch groups at 50 yards in my CZ sporters and the Aguila SV averages only a tenth of an inch larger at 50 yards in those same rifles.

I will try again in a week or so; I'm sure there is some pilot error with that heavy trigger.

Jason, I'd have to order it. I'll check it out.

 

Danny try some winchester powerpoint high velocity, I don't think you are going to win any competitions with it, but hey you never know.
:bthumb:

 

Danny,
If you've ever owned a 94/22, you'll see a whole lot of similarities with its barrel and the 320, possibly to even include ammo preference.
If I recall correctly, mine showed a distinct taste for PMC, both the sidewinder and zapper, as well as the yellow box target. Did ok with Win. Dynapoints as well.
Don't give up on 'er yet!

 

What a coincidence, Warren. When I first had the barreled action out of the stock, I immediately noticed the way the barrel was pinned to the action. It struck me how similar it was to my 94/22. Unfortunately, the same hurried employee could have installed both. They left too much of the pin protruding on one side. Over time the 94/22's errantly driven pin actually caused a tiny split to the 94/22's forend at the back. I ground the pin flush with a dremel, cold blued the tip, and injected a bit of epoxy in the tiny forend crack. The 320's pin was sticking out a fraction of an inch and had pressed a small indention in the stock's shoulder. After giving it the same treatment (no epoxy required), it seemed to help the 320s accuracy a small amount. The forend is only touching the barrel on the bottom, not the sides, thank goodness. I would think, given the single action screw, the bottom contact is by design. Remington seemed to like this contact near the forend tip. The factory goofed the barrel installation in another way. The sights are off center a few degrees. Actually, the rear sight was missing and that helps explain why the front bead/post was driven to the extreme right . It definitely is a scope gun! I slid an old Williams dovetail filler in the empty space, but it is disconcertingly canted left . Fun stuff.

Really, the rifle is like new in many ways. It shows no usage wear - just handling marks on the stock. Maybe it just needs to be "shot-in."

 

They're great rifles. I had a 310 that I often regret getting rid of (way to cheaply, as usual).

I'm sure most know of the connection with these essentially Australian rifles and Jack Warne who later started Kimber of Oregon. Lots of similarities if you compare them side by side.

 

I can't imagine you would want to try this, but it is possible to fit a second rear action screw to these rifles. That, with an action bedding job and free floating barrel (sometimes with a fore end pressure point) can really make a difference.

As my mate John stated in the link, a crisp 2 pound trigger is doable. Mine's not home at the moment but I may post a couple of pics. of these mods. when it returns.

 

Pardon the intrusion but I have a newly acquired 310 I bought for my grandchildren to learn to shoot on. It is near mint but has a very heavy trigger pull. Is there anything that can be done to lighten the pull? I don't mean to a target rifle level but just an easier pull so they don't have to jerk the trigger to fire the rifle. Also, if anyone has a source for an original rear sight, I need one as the rear sight is missing on this rifle. I installed a scope but would like to have the rifle complete as issued.

Thanks for any advice.

 

I can't help you much on the trigger. Hopefully someone else can.

My 320 lacked a rear sight as well. I checked Numrich Arms / Gun Parts Inc. and had no luck on either a 310 or 320 rear sight.

 

If you recall, I mentioned that this 320 was lacking a rear sight. On the weekend, I rummaged around in an old shoe box and found the rear sight from a Marlin 39A on which I had mounted a Williams aperture sight. It dovetailed nicely into the cut in the Winchester 320's barrel. Now's the weird part; I have never had the following happen in all my years of shooting.

On Monday night, I tapped the rear sight in until it looked centered then bagged the rifle for the next range trip. I shot her first this morning. With drift and hammer ready at the side.

I centered the bead in the 3" dot at 25 yards and squeezed. This centered high shot resulted:

I excitedly took my normal six o'clock hold on the 1" diamond for the next four. Can you believe this?

After packing the unneeded hammer and drift away, I spent the rest of the forty round box of American Eagles making the steel chicken spinner fly at 50 yards from an offhand shooting position. What fun! I probably have the only 320 with a semi-buckhorn rear sight. ;-)

 

That's gotta be a good omen - Better shout yourself a lottery ticket

I said you would like that little gun